You can use paste, and/or join. for you particular example paste -d ' ' a.txt b.txt > ab.txt will work
Regards -- Roman On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Arno Schuring <aelschur...@hotmail.com>wrote: > > > > well, I have two files: > > > > File_a.txt > > a > > a > > a > > > > File_b.txt > > b > > b > > b > > > > I wish to get a file_ab.txt as > > a b > > a b > > a b > > > > man 1 paste > > > Regards, > Arno > >